Hey Reader,

Zach here,

Bringing you a CG Boost Black Friday Sale with a 30% discount on our best-selling courses (and a few other Black Friday deals from other sources), as well as some resources and inspiration from the 3D world including a tutorial on procedural materials and an inspiring documentary about the creation of the legendary Half-Life 2 video game.

Let’s dive in.
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​Select CG Boost Courses 30% OFF for Black Friday ​

We’re offering four of our best-selling courses 30% off to celebrate Black Friday, until Cyber Monday:

• ​Blender Launch Pad​
• ​Master 3D Sculpting in Blender​
• ​Robotic Planet​
• ​Master Urban Environments in Blender​

The sale runs until Monday, December 2nd (23:55 CET).

To claim the discount, use the following coupon code at checkout.

30% OFF Coupon Code: BF24

​Find all our courses here​

​Introducing the Ultimate CG Boost Bundle​

We’ve just released our new Ultimate CG Boost course bundle— a huge collection of 9 courses at great value.

And with the Black Friday sale running, you can use the coupon code BF24 also for this course bundle and get an even better deal.

Valid till Monday, December 2nd (23:55 CET).

​Procedural Materials in Blender (Free Tutorial)​

If you think materials should always be made in the Shader Editor, think again. In his latest tutorial, Robin Squares explains how to make procedural customizable materials using Geometry Nodes! 🤯

This versatile workflow allows you to create any material you need for your 3D scenes and render all the needed PBR maps.

​P2Design Academy - All courses 25% off​

Pierrick Picaut from P2Design Academy is offering his extensive animation and rigging courses 25% off this Black Friday. This is a great opportunity as Pierrick doesn’t do sales frequently and his courses are already priced very attractively.

Both the "Alive" animation course and the "AOER" rigging course have been recently updated to the new Blender 4.2 LTS release.

​"Alive"- Blender animation course here (affiliate link)

​"Art Of Effective Rigging"- Blender rigging course here (affiliate link)

To claim the discount, use the following coupon code at checkout.

30% OFF Coupon Code: BF2024

The promotion will last until December 8th, 2024.

​Affinity Suite 50% off​

If you’re not satisfied with paying monthly subscriptions for your photo editing software (I won’t mention which one 😉) you may be interested in trying out the Affinity Photo or other apps from the Affinity Suite.

They’re all 50% off now on the Black Friday sale, and it’s a one-time purchase of a perpetual license.

​"Half-Life 2" 20th Anniversary Documentary ​

The groundbreaking FPS game Half-Life 2 was released 20 years ago (how time flies). I still remember the excitement and complete immersion while playing that game. Though some of the innovations brought by Valve in this sequel might seem obvious to gamers nowadays, it is still inspiring to watch a documentary about how it all came to be.

If not for the developers’ passion and ambition and their ability to face failures and turn them into learning experiences, the gaming world would not be as it is now.

Whether you loved Half-Life 2 or you just love computer games in general, I recommend watching this documentary (2 hours well spend).

That’s all from me today, have an amazing week and till next time.

~Zach